The Madras Government reject a proposal of the Board of Fort St George College to publish a second and revised edition of the Abbé Jean Dubois' work on Indian castes, but direct that a copy of the revised work should be transmitted to the Court of Directors for their information.
Further memorial from the weavers of the Chingleput District (in original, with a list of signatures) regarding the tax imposed on their looms, with related correspondence
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The correspondence includes a letter from A Freese, Collector of Chingleput, on the actual condition of the weavers in his district and on their ability to meet the tax; a statement showing the class of weavers, a description of the cloth manufactured and the profits derived by the weavers in th...
Correspondence relating to the grant of honorary rewards to Native officers of the Army, and the sanction of the Government of India for the selection of a Native officer for employment on the personal staff of the Commander in Chief with the full batta of his rank
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The officers recommended for reward were: Subadar Major Ramasawmy of the Gun Lascars, Subadar Major Camarasawmy Sirdar Bahadur of the Sappers and Miners, and Subadar Sheik Nutter of the 36th Regiment of Native Infantry
Proceedings relating to an individual who called himself Hajee Mahomed Riza Khan, and who arrived in Bombay from Muscat in February 1843 with a Firman in his favour to the address of the Bombay Government purporting to have been issued by His Highness Abdul Mejid Khan, Sultan of Constantinople
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The proceedings concern the suspicions of the Bombay Government regarding Hajee Mahomed Riza Khan, and the measures taken to ascertain whether or not he was an imposter
Khandesh: death of an enamdar named Puddum Row Mutkur without issue, and the continuance to his relatives of an hereditary village called Kheree Boodrook which he possessed in the Sultanpur Pargana
The edible vegetable products of India. 1810-1811.
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The Madras Government recommend Dr Whitelaw Ainslie's treatise on the edible vegetables of India to the favourable notice of the Court of Directors (includes a copy of the treatise). Treatise intended as part of an appendix to a medical work on the region. "A catalogue of the edible vegetable pro...
Papers regarding the repatriation of European mental patients from Madras to England
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Includes lists of European patients in the Madras Lunatic Asylum in Dec 1820, with details regarding place of origin, nature of illness etc, pp 21 and 27-52.
Summary of Nathaniel Wallich's career, and his return to England
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Collection to Draft No 458. This item comprises a series of documents relating to Wallich’s application to return temporarily to England in order to restore his health. Main themes: Wallich applies to return to England to restore his health; appointment of temporary stand-in (Sir Charles Metcalf...
Report on the Nilgiri Hills for the period Oct 1832-Dec 1833
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Report by Dr Robert Baikie (with associated correspondence) (includes returns of sick officers and soldiers of the King's and Company's armies, pp 24-55).
Papers regarding the treatment of eye disease in the Bombay Presidency
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Decision not to re-establish the Eye Infirmary at Bombay but to continue the system of employing an itinerant oculist (includes reports on the Eye Infirmaries at Madras and Calcutta).
